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Comment by Jeremybell

This achievement will be most likely in the first attack of Deathwing, when you will fly on him. I personnally think you have 4 places to aggro Deathwing, and start the encounter. I also think every boss you have to slay, will have a special buff/debuff for the encounter. This way you will have 4 different encounters.Also when you look at the names, you will most likely have to slay a dragon to summon Deathwing.

Comment by Unknowable

Certainly appears that it would take four clears to achieve this, as the criteria is both to destroy Deathwing and start the battle on different platforms.

From what I've seen of videos, it would appear that this achievement may be deceptively challenging, as each aspect gives you a different buff that is removed progressively through the fight. By starting on a different platform each time (in attempting to obtain this achievement), you'll likely have to alter your strategy for handling and losing these buffs, not only at the start but through the rest of the fight as well.

Of note, it also uses the Chromatic Dragon mount's head as an icon, and with two of the three models of Alexstrasza's drake-mounts having been revealed as drops for Normal and Heroic Deathwing, respectively, perhaps the full meta will be the Chromatic Dragon mount that was showcased recently?

EDIT: The mount's name I was referring to is Heart of the Aspects . It would be nice to see a cool meta mount that isn't just a reskin of a raid drop!

Comment by GMChocolate

Killing Ysera first: You lose Ysera's Presence and her Enter the Dream special ability that reduces all your damage taken by 50% for 5 seconds (30 sec cooldown) which can be helpful for reducing damage taken from Elementium Bolt, Impale or Blistering Heat. This is the platform you will start on when you are fighting the boss normally simply because all the other dragons give you much better buffs.The best order when starting on Ysera's platform: Ysera -> Alexstrasza -> Nozdormu -> Kalecgos

Killing Nozdormu first: You lose Nozdormu's Presence and his Time Zone that slows the Elementium Bolt and gives you time to destroy it before it even reaches the ground and does huge damage to everyone in the raid. Time Zone also slows the attack speed of Regenerative Blood while it stands in it so the Degenerative Bite debuff it applies on the tank stacks slower. Starting on this platform shouldn't be too difficult since the buffs you gain aren't that great and you can mitigate the damage from the meteor crash with Ysera'sEnter the Dream special ability. The best order when starting on Nozdormu's platform: Nozdormu -> Alexstrasza -> Ysera -> Kalecgos

Killing Alexstrasza first:You lose Alexstrasza's Presence and her Cauterize which helps you kill the Blistering Tentacles that spawn from Arm Tentacles. The Blistering Tentacles are immune to AoE damage so your DPS will need to be fast on killing them before damage gets too high. The best order when starting on Alexstrasza's platform: Alexstrasza -> Ysera -> Nozdormu -> Kalecgos

Killing Kalecgos first:You lose Kalecgos' Presence and his Spellweaving which helps you killing the Regenerative Blood that Deathwing spawns during Hemorrhage. This will be the hardest way to defeat the boss because you will need VERY high DPS to kill the Regenerative Blood on the remaining 3 platforms without Kalecgos' buff.The best order when starting on Kalecgos' platform: Kalecgos -> Ysera -> Nozdormu -> Alexstrasza

Comment by ItZMuRdA

Completed this achievement tonight and can conclusively say a few things about it. First, I can confirm that there are unfortunately no bonus rewards tied to its completion, as I know there was a lot of speculation about it potentially being linked to the Heart or Soul of the Aspects chromatic dragon mount and/or pet. This leads me to believe that they will likely be associated with the completion of the legendary daggers. (Edit: It seems that they will be sold as a Blizzard Store mount and pet, with the recent announcement of the Heart of the Aspects mount on sale for $25 USD).

Furthermore, if you're looking to complete this achievement, for a guild that is into heroic modes, it's really not very difficult, especially if you do Kalecgos last, after you've had time to acquire as many gear upgrades as possible. The above comment by GMChocolate sums up the strategies and ideal order for each method quite nicely, so I recommend utilizing those suggestions when you do this for yourselves. Kalecgos really was the only one that we found remotely challenging, and it pretty much boiled down to effectively AoEing the hemorrhage adds quickly enough (I suggest stacking them on the tentacle for splash damage) to still be able to beat all the Cataclysm casts.

It is also worthwhile to note that if you are using Alexstrasza or Nozdormu as your last platform, you will have to jump through Deathwing's slouched over body to get to Ysera's platform. This is because the tentacles and adds in phase 2 will only spawn on Ysera's platform, even though you can DPS Deathwing from Nozdormu's platform. If you neglect to jump over (or simply didn't realize, like us at first), you'll quickly start taking shrapnel casts from the adds but won't be able to attack them without swapping platforms mid-phase, likely resulting in a wipe. So remember to get to Ysera's platform at the beginning of phase 2, even if it seems strange jumping through Deathwing's mouth!

Best of luck to anyone going for this, and please feel free to reply if you have any questions!

Primarily without Nozdormu or Alexstraza your raid's biggest issue will be tentacle and add damage. With the 10% nerf this shouldn't be a problem.

Starting with Kalecgos first on heroic is considered impossible and likely won't be possible until a 30% nerf.

Comment by FuxieDK

It's worth to remember, if you assault Red or Bronze LAST, you still need to jump back to Green platform, even though you can attack DW's head from Bronze platform..

This is because small tentacles and Terrors only spawn on Green platform.

This nearly caused us to wipe last night, when we did Blue -> Green -> Bronze -> Red..

Comment by oscarucb

We finished the achievement tonight (10% nerf) doing Kalecgos using the following order:

Blue > Yellow > Red > Green

We used 1 tank, 2 heals and 7 dps and one-shot the achievement fairly easily. The idea is the 20% healing boost and extra dps toons makes the fight zergable - every corruption dies after one impale and everything just melts. Saving the green until last also gives your raid the button to use for every elementium bolt and every time damage spikes (at the end of each limb and during blistering tentacles).

Comment by Cloora

Finished this achievement off with Blue > Green > Yellow > Red with a raid of 23. Had DPS kill adds on the first 3 platforms(with the haste buff) after they came up, then ignored them on the 4th platform until we got spellweave back after dpsing down the tentacle. Used a paladin tank and a warrior tank to bounce aggro back and forth on the adds to keep the stacks from becoming unhealable.

Comment by sharkeater

now at 25percent, with 3 friends and two sales in raid we nailed yellow on heroic no problem.

one shot, and laughable.

Comment by Popper

We had three parts of this achievement, and then killed Kalecgos first last week, but didn't get credit for the kill in the achievement. Several ticket responses said Bliz acknowledged there's an issue here, and engineering is working on it. We are waiting to hear that it's fixed so we can re-do that last part and get credit for the achievement.

Comment by AveryZan

I haven't seen it mentioned but I tested it and confirmed this is Character Specific, so trying to knock out different platforms in the same week on alts will not work.

Comment by saycero

PATCH 5.4killed Deathwing tonight with my guild starting with Alexstrasza (which was the last I needed for the achievement) but because we were so over-geared and killed so quickly I didn't get the achieve.

A friend in the party with none of the parts previously completed received the Nozdormu achievement so I've submitted a ticket.

TL;DR - Don't kill them too quickly or the achievement may bug!

Comment by anariet

Was searching for this info and couldn't find it here. Some people call the dragons by their colors instead of their names. So, for anyone else that might be interested, they are as follows:

Comment by predfark

Came here to provide my experience with the achievement in regards to bugging.

I too killed the encounter too quickly with only one platform needed to complete my meta. I'm pretty sure the Aspects need to be Impaled by the Mutated Corruption tentacles that spawn shortly after each platform is engaged. Although the game gives the notice that Deathwing is assaulting the aspect, unless the Mutated Corruption gets a cast off of Impale, then the encounter will not award the achievement upon killing Deathwing. The aspects never get assaulted until then.

Looks like I get my mount next week. :(

Comment by cgilliand

I only had Alexstrasza remaining for this achievement and it kept bugging out on me by pulling the adjacent boss before doing damage to her. They only thing I could do that worked today was put my Warlock pet on Passive and "Move to" on her platform before I started the encounter with Thrall.

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Comment by Shkar

Since there is little information for people struggling with having this achievement 3/4 completed, I will share what I did and looked for to solo it. Like many, Alexstrasza was the last one I needed.

As a warrior, I walked across to Nozdormu's platform, heroic leaped to the other side, and walked to Alexstrasza. At this stage, you will see a message about Deathwing assaulting Alexstrasza if you made it in time. If it says he has assaulted Nozdormu, just leap to your death and reset. After you have gotten Deathwing to assault the aspect you need, wait for a message to occur saying the Corruption begins to impale them. Then, target the aspect and make sure that their health has actually depleted. Repeat this step for the other three aspects and finish off Deathwing. If done successfully, you should complete your achievement and be able to loot your reward.

I am not sure if each of those steps is absolutely mandatory, but that seems to be an effective way to complete it.

Comment by quentine

17.12.2014 - for this day I can say there is no bug with this achievement.

If you want to fully solo this, you might have trouble with Alexstrasza part - you might be too slow to get there on time, before Deathwing assaults. If you're too late, he will assault Nozdormu first and you won't get credit. You need a speed boost which is buff "Carrying winds", applied to you while jumping between platforms. It stacks up to 2, so you can have 120% speed boost for 9 sec. All you need to do is to start encounter with 2 stacks of Carrying winds and rush to Alexstrasza platform.Hope it helps.

Comment by jmrusso731

For most players Alexstraza will be their last task to complete. If you are having trouble with it or think it impossible, it isn't. It is very easy. If you notice that when you leap from platform from platform you gain a movement speed buff. I believe its above 100%. What I did was on the starting platform, I jumped over to Nozdormu's platform then back to the starting one. I started the encounter and with the buff still active I made my way to Alexstraza's platform with time to spare. Just make sure that once you start the encounter, you get moving.

Comment by Unnatural79

I'm missing only the Ysera part of the achievement, since I choose to leave the "easy part" at last, and after the 2nd time I killed Deathwing starting on her platform, I'm starting to think there's some other issue. Last time (yesterday) I've been careful to wait the "Deathwing assaults Ysera" message, and even for Mutated Corruption to spawn before killing the tentacle. I got the other 3 platform progress without worries, so I find this is really strange.

Comment by Downhitted

Patch 6.0.3

I just got the achievement few moments ago. I played as Arms Warrior, which doesn't have that much speed buffs of any kinds. I read that you had to rush to Alexstrasza to make sure it was tagged as the first assaulted dragon.

I was standing on the edge of Thrall's reach of speak, the moment when I clicked accept to start the encounter, I immediately started running towards Alex' platform, while in mid-air I ready'd Heroic Leap, so the second I landed I could quickly jump to the next edge to jump across. (I did this since I couldn't make the speed boost stack properly). I actually got pushed back because of some bug with "Carrying Winds" somehow, but Alex got tagged and I could just start my nuking.

Comment by funkymongoloid

After failing to get the achievement on my warrior (Alextraza still wouldn't count), I read the comments here and then tried the achievement fresh on my monk. To my surprise after letting Alextraza use her ability, and then just nuking everything, the achievement criteria counted in the end.

So I think the solution is to let her use her ability (breath fire on the small tentacles on Deathwing's arm). She didn't take any damage herself, yet the criteria was met for the achievement.

Comment by Gho5tRUN3R

Seriously not that hard. Just have to start on the aspects platform. I rushed to Alexstrasza's the moment I accepted the start encounter option. And that was with a ret paladin with just the basic Pursuit of Justice talent. No speed abilities other than that. Had my cape enchanted with Gift of Haste for its 10% extra speed boost if that helps.

Comment by Jorvalt

Just so you guys know, the progress for this achievement doesn't count for all characters on your account, i.e. if you kill Kalecgos and Alexstrasza first on one character and Nozdormu and Ysera first on another, you still won't get the achievement. You have to get all of them on one character.

Comment by Unravel

So my wife and I were working on Glory of the Dragon Soul together and this was the last one we needed. We did all 3 and left start-on-Ysera's-platform for last. We tried 3 weeks in a row unsuccessfully to get credit for the achievement, even though we did start on her platform each time. We tried all the tricks listed here to get it to work and was just no-go. Submitted a ticket and were told that it's a known bug and they are working on it. We decided to give it one more shot.

We cleared the entire 10m raid together up until the last boss. Then we both exited the instance and went in separately. Solo'd the last boss, starting on Ysera's platform and voila, it worked.

Good luck.

Comment by bogholio

Like many others I was 3/4 for this achievement leaving only Alexstrasza's platform to go.

I solo'd this on my DK with no class/race speed boosts, here's how.

You get a speed boost (Carrying Winds) when you jump over each platform! The buff lasts 9 seconds and stacks twice, so before starting the encounter, simply jump to another platform, jump back, talk to Thrall to start the encounter, then quickly jump over to Alexstrasza's platform.

This worked first time for me, I also let the tentacle spawn and go through a round of Impale before downing the wing.

Comment by Koppol

After 3 failed attemps trying to get Alexstraza, i tried a a mash-up of everything i read in the comment section.

I solo'd it today on my DK frost:

-Stacked up the speed buff before starting the encounter, then rushed to Alexstraza-Went through 2 rounds of impale, then killed the mutation-Sat still, killing whatever adds Deathwing threw at me until Alex' used her ability (It's a red beam, and DW starts casting something called cataclysm i think)-Nuked the arm-Jumped to the next platform, and WAITED for the aspect to get assaulted, then nuked the arm-Repeat ^ until end of fight.

It worked for me, best of luck to you guys.

Comment by Darkswift

Pay attention ppl. if you kill it too fast you will not get the achivement. probably because of Assault Aspects

Comment by Bomuld

I just soloed Alexstrasza as a Frost Mage by using my water elemental.

Since Deathwing will assault the aspect on the platform with the most players on, I thought this might work:

Before starting the encounter I placed my water elemental on Alexstrasza's platform.

I went back and talked to Thrall and then quickly jumped to the next platform, used blink to get to the next edge faster and then jumped to Alexstrasza's platform.

Deathwing started attacking Alexstrasza and I waited until she flew away, then nuked Deathwing and got the achi after nuking him down.

This worked and was actually very easy. I'm guessing it can be done with a hunter or warlock pet, assuming you can get to the platform fast enough :)

Comment by mychatposts

Just some tips since you're pretty high level now and can practically one shot everything in Dragon Soul and are just doing Glory of the Dragon Soul Raider for the Reins of the Twilight Harbinger achievement mount . These tips for Chromatic Champion were learned from turning what should have been a 4 week breeze into a 6 week ordeal all for lack of patience. Basically, you have to learn to NOT nuke Deathwing right away, but wait for several steps in the fight to happen first.

"Who me? I don't wait for nuthin'!"

Wrong tactic.

1. Getting the achievement doesn't mean just standing on the particular platform on the last fight of Dragon Soul and nuking the claw that shows up down in 4 seconds flat. If you do that, you might nuke the claw down before your dragon of choice (the one hovering behind you above the platform) gets attacked, and you won't get the step in the achievement. You have to wait and make sure your dragon gets attacked and damaged first (preferably twice - just click on it and watch if it is damaged - the attack can take up to 30 seconds to happen) hence 'assaulted' before you nuke the Mutated Corruption tentacle and then Deathwing's claw. . Then go to the next dragon, WAIT and make sure it's attacked (damaged twice preferably) THEN kill the Mutated Corruption tentacle that spawns at the back of the platform THEN attack the claw. Repeat two more times.

1a. There is a notice in your chat box that a particular dragon has been attacked. Watch for it.

1b, Don't leave any Elementium Bolt sitting around either. Destroy those too even when they are on the ground.

2. Bring a slightly lower level (or iLvl) friend to stand on the correct platform when you start the boss. It's easy to get Alexstrasza that way. OR: (I haven't tried this yet, but I imagine it will work): leave a pet, minion, or elemental on PASSIVE on the platform you want to start on. That may start the fight in the right place if you don't have a buddy.

3. Track the achievement by searching for Glory of the Dragon Soul raider in your achievement panel (the addon 'OverAchiever' puts a really handy search tool on your achievement list that lets you do that). Tick the 'Track' box on the left hand side of the achievement description. It will let you know in your quest tracker if you got the 'Assaulted first' on your particular dragon, but by only showing which dragons you have left to do. So if Nozdormu is attacked first, his listed name disappears from the tracker only once you finish the fight. Other than watching the chat box, you may not be sure if your dragon was attacked first until the end of the fight, which kinda stinks. I read somewhere that a warning pops up " attacked first" but in my UI I never saw it. Maybe an addon thing. Just watch the chat box.

3b. If you're not sure you did the above steps correctly, jump off the platform and start again rather than risk waiting another week.

Comment by CutmanCometh

For Alexstrazsa: Just face the edge of the platform as you accept the encounter, then walk off the edge, as soon as you land, hit Flying Serpent Kick, which will send you all the way across the platform and off the other side, and you will land on the Alex platform in plenty of time for Deathwing to start there.

Comment by Ziast

Did Alex today as a feral druid spec'd into displacer beast. Jump back and forth to gain 2 stacks of the winds buff, then before you activate the fight use dash. Once activated, jump to Noz's platform, blink across and jump to Alex's. From there continue as normal.

Comment by HoneyLuxury

I tried Alex with the stacked buff, but didn't work right away.

So if like me you have a potato and/or a herpy ping, put the settings on low.Also, as a dk, don't forget you unholy presence :)

Comment by ksrneal

is this account wide meaning can you do the diff assaults on a diff char in the same day can u get the achive?

Comment by Jeolene

I was able to JUST BARELY make it to Alex's platform as a hunter with Aspect of the Cheetah and all the speed boosts from my WoD enchants. I made sure to be as far away from Thrall as possible to still be able to talk to him and stood behind him to try and get that inside arc of the platforms. It does send you to the middle on the next jump, but I'm sure anything helps. Also got music roll from this one... almost have them all!

Comment by Illidana

To get to Alextraza in time:Before you start the encounter, jump to the nearest platform then back to Thrall. That will apply two stacks of Carrying Winds which increases your run speed by 120% for a 10 seconds just enough for you to start the encounter and get to Alex in time for Deathwing to assault her. Wait for the tentacle (Mutated Corruption) to spawn and impale Alex then kill it, kill the leg and continue with remaining Aspects. The order is irrelevant now since this event is soloable.